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Marion an 80 year-old woman, sits on a bench in a park where she has always sat, recalling her youth in this same park, on this same bench. Her reverie is interrupted by a young girl of 16, also called Marion.

As they converse, it becomes apparent to them that, although the older Marion cannot recall meeting the younger, they are in fact the same woman at opposite ends of their shared (or parallel) life.

Performed by the KTTP, Season 12, at the Beckett Theatre, C.U.B. Malthouse, February 20 - March 3, 2001. The evening was titled Mysteries and was a mash-up of five plays: Bearers of Light, A Foundling, Flowers, O Jim and The Eyes.

Director, Ariette Taylor; Designer, Adrienne Chisholm, Lighting, Phil Lethlean; Production/Stage Manager, David Presser, Choreographer, Jonathan Taylor.

Cast: Chloe Armstrong, Marion Heathfield

Form/Style: poetic drama (short)
Length in minutes: 15
Cast: 2 total
Roles: 2 female identifying
Cast age groups: 16 to 18, 18+
Audience age: teen, young adult, adult
Publisher: Australian Script Centre

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Marion

Female | 60+ | 3 to 5 minutes
Starts on page 4

EXTRACT: No one/Even on the coldest of winter mornings there would be people about and today is so mild almost an Autumn day/Yes but it is winter there is that particular chill in your bones/ Perhaps it wasn't as cold then is that possible?/I suppose anything is possible (She smiles)God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb (She strokes the arm of the bench)How long have I sat here?/ An age

DANIELKEENE.COM.AU

Daniel Keene's website, containing interviews, extracts, introductions and production histories.

TWO TAKES ON TRUTH AND LIES

FIONA GRUBER, THE AUSTRALIAN, OCTOBER 2008

Whilst discussing the 2008 production of ' Lower Depths' by Maxim Gorky, Director, Ariette Taylor and the Australian's Fiona Gruber reflect on the aesthetic influences of the Keene/Taylor project, in particular a furniture repository belonging to the Brotherhood of St Laurence that was a cornerstone of many Keene/Taylor productions.

MELBOURNE THEATRE: THE WITNESS

RICHARD MURPHET, REAL TIME ISSUE #43, JUNE-JULY 2001

Richard Murphet's survey of Melbourne's theatre scene in the early 2000s, in which he discusses the Keene/Taylor Theatre Project.

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA

Keene Taylor Theatre Project : programs and related material collected by the National Library of Australia, accessible for research purposes.

45 DOWNSTAIRS

A brief history of 45 Downstairs, host to a number of productions included in the Keene/Taylor Theatre Project.

KITCHEN TABLE INTERVIEW: DANIEL KEENE

ALISON CROGGON, THEATRENOTES.BLOGSPOT.COM.AU, NOV 2010

"For the first time I can remember, Daniel Keene has two productions on at once in his home town... Since he lives in the same house as I do, I sneakily exploited our proximity to ask him some questions. And, eventually, he answered them."

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